Artist Profile: Walter Phillips
Historical Canadian Artist
1884 - 1963

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Biography

Walter Phillips was born in Lincolnshire, England in 1884. Trained at the Birmingham School of Art, he was a successful watercolour artist in England before he and his wife, Gladys, emigrated to Winnipeg in 1913. Although watercolour remained his primary medium, the wood block print was an enduring interest which brought his work to a wider audience. Among his best-known and loved images in watercolour and woodblock print are those which depict family holidays on Lake of the Woods from the teens until 1925. In 1940, Phillips was asked to be artist in residence at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He moved to Calgary in 1941 where he taught at the provincial Institute of Technology and Art. He died in 1963 leaving a legacy of uniquely Canadian art. Walter J. Phillips is recognised today as a master of the watercolour and the woodblock print medium and his work is eagerly collected. His works are housed in galleries across Canada, including The National Gallery of Canada, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies as well as collections abroad in London, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Japan, and private collections the world over. The most extensive private collection of work by Phillips was gifted to the city of Winnipeg. Permanently housed in the Pavilion Gallery Museum in Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park, the Crabb collection is available for public viewing year round.

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Title: Mt. Eisenhower {Castle Mountain}
Artist: Walter Phillips
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 15" x 16.5" (h x w)
Status: Available, please contact us to purchase.
Price : Available on Request

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Howe Sound, B.C.

Planting A Zunuk

Summer Clouds

Spruce Lake

Warren's Landing, Lake Winnipeg

Alpine Meadow

Agamemnon Channel, BC

Pom Poms
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